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- ASK FATHER: How can we, as lay Catholics, pass on the Faith given heterodoxy coming from high places?
- WDTPRS – 16th Sunday after Pentecost: Grace before us, grace behind us
- Daily Rome Shot 1700
- One Year Ago: In one of Charlie Kirk’s last videos he honored the Blessed Virgin Mary and invited Protestants, Evangelicals to honor her more
- Daily Rome Shot 1699
- Remember, it’s not just that they don’t like the rites, they don’t like the people who like the rites.
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- Daily Rome Shot 1698: a great book
- What Does The Prayer (Hymn) Really Say? Ave Maris Stella (Feasts of the B.V.M.)
- 8 September – Feast of the Nativity of Mary and a “flash of anamnesis”
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 15th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 23rd Ordinary)
- “We therefore are the bowels of the Church…”. We’re…. WHAT, again?
- Daily Rome Shot 1697
- WDTPRS – 15th Sunday after Pentecost: The Church is taking on water. Is she sinking?
- Daily Rome Shot 1696
- 4 Sept: St. Moses, Old Testament prophet, lawgiver, forerunner of Christ
- 3 Sept – Anniversary of the Death of Fr. Paul Mankowski, SJ. – Rest peace Mankus Chrysokalamus!
- What Does The Prayer (Hymn) Really Say? Aeterna caeli gloria (Lauds on Fridays after Pentecost)
- What Does The Prayer (Hymn) Really Say? Iesu Redemptor Omnium
- Daily Rome Shot 1695
- St. Teresa of Avila’s “Prayer to Redeem Lost Time” and the Purification of Memory
- Daily Rome Shot 1694
- ASK FATHER: My territorial parish is awful. I’ve tried. But I have my family to think of. Should I say or should I go?
- Daily Rome Shot 1693 – MASSIVE COOLNESS
- Are we caught in a culture of pervasive lies? VIDEO
- From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 26-07-22 – Fr Kevin caught embezzling
- KaBOOM – Fr. Joseph Gelineau: “The Roman rite as we knew it no longer exists. It is destroyed.”
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Tag Archives: Doctrinal Preamble
Declaration of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei” about the SSPX and the discussions
From VIS: The Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei” takes this occasion to announce that, in its most recent official communication (6 September 2012), the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X has indicated that additional time for reflection and study is needed … Read More
The SSPX’s “sine quibus non” conditions
From the intrepid Andrea Tornielli: […] The latest version of the doctrinal preamble – discussed by cardinals of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and approved by the Pope – is considered by the Holy See to be … Read More
Proposal and Counter-Proposals for Pope Benedict and the SSPX
I was sent a link to an article in The Remnant on the SSPX situation. The article contains the following statements: Instead of harassing Bishop Fellay to sign a doctrinal preamble, the Vatican should require every superior, university president and … Read More
NCReg Interview with the new VP of “Ecclesia Dei”, Archbp. DiNoia
At the National Catholic Register there is a long interview with the new Vice President of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei”, His Excellency Most Reverend, J. Augustine DiNoia, OP. He said that, since he hasn’t actually begun his work at … Read More
SSPX Bp. Galaretta 2011 attack on the Holy See’s Doctrinal Preamble
I have just started to read SSPX Bp. Galaretta’s contradiction of the “Doctrinal Preamble” offered by the Holy See in advance of reconciliation. It is in French right now. HERE. In the meantime, His Hermeneuticalness, Fr. Finigan posted a request … Read More
SSPX Bp. Fellay in Rome to receive Pope Benedict’s decision about the Doctrinal Preamble. PRAY!
Three people have come up to me with questions. I am getting text messages on my phone. It seems SSPX Superior Bishop Bernard Fellay is in Rome to meet with officials of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith … Read More
SSPX/Holy See: Pont. Comm. “Ecclesia Dei” issues a statement, Vatican Radio chimes in
From VIS: In data 17 aprile 2012 è pervenuto, come richiesto nell’incontro del 16 marzo 2012, svoltosi presso la sede della Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede, il testo della risposta di S.E. Mons. Bernard Fellay, Superiore Generale della Fraternità … Read More
Has SSPX Bp. Fellay SIGNED the CDF’s “Doctrinal Preamble”? Tornielli says yes!
I have read Andrea Tornielli’s report on Vatican Insider that SSPX Bp. Fellay as SIGNED the CDF’s “Doctrinal Preamble”. Italian HERE. Il superiore della Fraternità San Pio X ha sottoscritto il preambolo dottrinale proposto dalla Santa Sede, anche se con … Read More
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SSPX preparing for a positive response to the Holy See’s last letter
Please use the sharing buttons!According to pius.info the German FSSPX district website, the “Kanzelverkündiging” below was read in all churches and chapels of the district. To one observer who wrote to me, “it looks like the are preparing the FSSPX-faithfull … Read More
Holy See Statement about SSPX and avoiding “ecclesial rupture of painful and incalculable consequences”
I thought something was coming! This is from the Holy See Press Office: COMMUNIQUE CONCERNING THE SOCIETY OF ST. PIUS X Vatican City, 16 March 2012 (VIS) – Given below is the text of a communique relating to the Society … Read More




















